28 years ago, I was rudely woken up by relatives screaming "We have won the World Cup". It is quite likely that Saturday’s final between India & Sri Lanka also ended around the same time as that game in 1983. I was well awake this time around!
I can’t recall exactly when I started following cricket with a lot of interest, but I definitely recall watching games from the 1985 World Cham...
So the ECB have dumped the Friends Provident Trophy, England’s 50-over domestic competition, from next season onwards. There will still be a 40-over thrash, mainly played on Sundays, along with tweaks to the Twenty20 Cup. More here.
More excitingly, England will host Pakistan and Australia next summer. Before that, there will be two Tests and three [...]
Yuvraj Singh and Raina starts in India’s trilling win against the defending champions Australia at Ahmedabad. Century by Aussies Captain Ricky Pointing helped Australia to post a competitive target of 260 in the second quarter finals match against India at … Continue reading →
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Malcolm Conn reports in ’The Australian’ that the BCCI has approached Cricket Australia to convert the 7 ODI series (scheduled for October) into a 2 test 3 ODI series.
On the face of it, the story is incredulous and it seems unprecedented. But in reality it is not.
There have been at least two previous occasions where Malcolm Conn did not end his write-up with the phrase "India have ...
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